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MikeyB
Asked: 2013-06-07 14:35:57 +0800 CST

Convenient public IPv6 test addresses

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Are there any convenient public, globally routable test addresses for IPv6?

Similar to how 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 tend to get used this way for IPv4?

ipv6

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  1. Best Answer

    The shortest I've seen is www.sprint.net (2600::).

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  2. Handily enough, 2001:4860:4860::8888 and 2001:4860:4860::8844 are the IPv6 equivalents of 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4!

    That's fairly easy to remember.

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  3. example.com, example.net, and example.org are reserved domains for documentation purposes. However, they also resolve to a running HTTP server and can be opened in browser and this server also response to ping:

    # ping -c1 example.net
PING example.net (93.184.216.34): 56 data bytes
...

# ping6 -c1 example.net
PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) .... --> 2606:2800:220:1:248:1893:25c8:1946
...

    The IP addresses are hard to remember, yet the domain names are easy, so if you have DNS...

    Alternatively you can use the DNS servers of Quad9:
    (great alternative to Google's DNS; better privacy and malware filtering)

    # ping 9.9.9.9
# ping6 2620:fe::fe
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